Month: March 2008

AmericanMuscle.com Dirt Don’t Hurt Contest – Over $400 In Prizes!
The Winners Have Been Announced!The AmericanMuscle.com Dirt Don’t Hurt Contest is finally over and it is time to announce the winners! With over 70 entries to this contest, this was no easy task.

We had some really good entries and some hilarious beater cars to boot! With this being a Mustang site, I decided to give the top three prizes to three daring souls that actually brave the winter weather forces in their precious Mustangs. But in keeping with the spirit of the contest, I have selected two high quality beater cars as runner ups and each shall be receiving an American Muscle T-Shirt!

With that said, we can now get on to the good part…the winners:

1st Prize – Justin T. of Chandler, AZ:
Justin’s Mustang has clearly seen some wintry action. Check out the pictures of his snow laden Mustang. Pictures of his Mustang in action hitting the slushy salty roads on a recent trek up North helped Justin make out with 1st place!

1st Place Prizes:

$100 American Muscle Gift Certificate

$75 Mothers Car Care Kit:

Mothers Car Wash & Wax Kit

Mothers Wheel & Tire Cleaning Kit

American Muscle T-Shirt

2nd Prize – Greg M. of Leesburg, OH:
Greg’s Mustang really took one for the team in a recent snow storm in Ohio. Take a good look at what is left of his passenger-side side view mirror! It may not pass inspection now, but it sure as heck got him home in one piece!

2nd Place Prizes:

$50 American Muscle Gift Certificate

$75 Mothers Car Care Kit:

Mothers Car Wash & Wax Kit

Mothers Wheel & Tire Cleaning Kit

American Muscle T-Shirt

3rd Prize – Nicole P. of Yardville, NJ:
The paint on Nicole’s 2005+ GT was recently ravaged on the salty roads on a ski trip to the Poconos Mountains. Nicole may be sad that ski season is over, but I am sure her Mustang is ready to be washed and cruise through the road-salt-free summer months!

3rd Place Prizes:

$25 American Muscle Gift Certificate

$75 Mothers Car Care Kit:

Mothers Car Wash & Wax Kit

Mothers Wheel & Tire Cleaning Kit

American Muscle T-Shirt

1st Runner Up – Matt J. of Racine, WI:
One look at Matt’s daily winter driver and you will see that Matt is a firm believer in having more rust then paint on his car! Matt’s 1987 Dodge Ramcharger may have seen better days, but it is pushing 280k+ miles and still running strong…er well maybe not strong but it is still running!

1st Runner Up Prize:

American Muscle T-Shirt

2nd Runner Up – Norman T. of Paragon, IN:
Not everyone’s beater needs to be beat! Just take a look at Norman’s fully customized “General Flea”! Norman tricked out this General Lee tribute with some sick custom paint and eye popping graphics. I don’t know about you, but I am super serially jealous!

AmericanMuscle.com Dirt Don’t Hurt Contest – Over $400 In Prizes!
Friday March 14th Through Friday March 28thClick to submit your entry now!
With spring at hand, Race and Car Show season is FINALLY here! It is time to pull those Mustangs out of hibernation and get them back on the road! But what about our dear old trusty winter daily drivers? Shouldn’t they get some love too? Well, that is exactly what this contest is intended to do…pay tribute to our daily winter drivers, whether they are Mustangs or not!

So how do you enter said contest? Simple, take a picture of your filthy, dirty, beat, salt covered, road warrior and submit it to contests@americanmuscle.com. The top three dirtiest picture entries will be featured on our site and they will receive super sweet prizes!

Your entry or entries must be submitted before 1:00PM Eastern Time on Friday March the 28th.

You must include your full name, address, phone number, email address, and T-Shirt size when submitting. (Personal information will only be used internally for our records and to deliver your prize. No personal information collected will be used for outside solicitations or sold in any way.)

Everyone is eligible to enter, you do not have to have made a previous purchase from AmericanMuscle.com.

You may submit as many individual entries as you want, but please do not SPAM the same entry multiples times or ALL of your entries will be disqualified!

Gift Certificate Prizes valid only for products at AmericanMuscle.com and are not redeemable or exchangeable for any cash value.

On March 15th, 2008, the Black Mustang Club held its annual St. Patrick’s Day Beach Cruise. While American Muscle was freezing its butts off in good old Pennsylvania, the BMC was cruising the California Coasts in sunny bliss!

The events of the day included a scenic cruise around the Palos Verdes Peninsula carefully planned to hug the coast rather than cruising on the freeways with two organized stops for photo opportunities. Not only were the views a pleasure, but the spirited turns and curves of the route gave this cruise more excitement! Following the cruise all guests partook in food, drinks, and a prize raffle at an Irish Pub in Huntington Beach reserved especially for the event’s participants.

American Muscle donated a $100 Gift Certificate for the prize raffle as well as some Free American Muscle Swag. To check out the cruise for yourself, The Black Mustang Club provided these videos for your enjoyment:

AmericanMuscle (www.americanmuscle.com) is helping to sponsor an attempt at the ECTA Land Speed Record for a Production Supercharged vehicle with a Stock Bottom End which is currently at 186.853MPH from a standing mile. Attempting this feat will be the car’s 73 year old owner Robert Self. The attempt will be made April 5-6th, 2008 at the East Coast Timing Association (ECTA) in Maxton, North Carolina. On the ECTA’s 1mile x 30ft abandoned runway track, Robert is looking to hit a cool 200-210MPH in his Ford GT and have room to stop.

A fully custom roll cage, Halon fire extinguishing system, and drag chute have been installed by S&W Racecars. All performance enhancements and custom SCT dynamometer tuning have been performed by Eric Swarr & his team at Swarr Auto Performance Center in Collegeville, Pennsylvania (www.swarrauto.com). In addition to the $15,000 Whipple Industries Supercharger upgrade, Robert has an additional $30,000 over the car’s $170,000 base price invested in performance and safety upgrades. AmericanMuscle.com will be setting Robert up with the proper tire setup for running speeds in excess of 200MPH in a 1000+ horsepower car, and also helping to promote the event.

After much deliberation and careful thought, we are proud to announce the winners of the American Muscle Begging Contest! We had almost 150 entries, and they were really good! So good it took us an extra day to decide on the final winners!

And so good, we are actually adding a 4th place winner and three Runner Up spots! Wowser! We would like to thank everybody that entered the contest, we had a great mix of both true stories and obnoxiously hilarious fiction! So keep an eye on American Muscle for more great opportunities! But enough of this hubbub, on to the winning entries!

The Begging Contest is officially over folks, and the judges are set for deliberation. We receive almost 150 entries, and let me tell you the competition is fierce! It is going to take us a while to go through these all and pick the very best of the best, so I will be announcing the winner on Monday, March 3rd! Stay tuned right here at American Muscle for the official winner announcements of the BLOG Begging Contest!